...calculated to debase our currency or impair the credit of our country. We are therefore opposed to the free coinage of silver, except by international...agreement with the leading commercial nations of the earth. ... All of our silver and paper currency must be maintained at parity with gold." The lines...

...elsewhere, until water ran uphill — "the existing gold standard must be preserved." The section concluded, "All our silver and paper currency must be maintained...designed to maintain inviolably the obligations of the United States and all our money, whether coin or paper, at the present standard, the standard of...

...calculated to debase our currency or impair the credit of our country. We are therefore opposed to the free coinage of silver, except by international...agreement with the leading commercial nations of the earth, which agreement we pledge ourselves to promote; and until such agreement can be obtained, the...

...country. We are, therefore, opposed to the free coinage of silver except by international agreement and until such agreement can be obtained, the existing gold standard must be preserved. Since there was no possibility of achieving international bimetallism, the plank was a complete endorsement...